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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
Most other countries do the "first floor" = "one up from the ground" thing too... And in 7th grade Spanish class, my teacher tried to make us do the cultural and translational shift at the same time, so that the correct pairing according to her was
piso primero = second floor
This pissed me off to no end, because it was not the correct translation of those words. I'm pretty sure it was one of those cases where I deliberately put the wrong answer on a test because I couldn't bring myself to write what I knew she wanted us to write.
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[translator-nerd mode]
I beg to differ:
piso = floor (presumably)
primero = first
piso primero = second floor
This is why machine translation does not work: context is everything and this is the most succinct example of that I have ever seen! Thank you Clod!
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